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Build Customer Relationships

Relationship Marketing Relationship Value of Customers Customer Profitability Segments Relationship Development Strategies Relationship Challenges. Chapter 7. Build Customer Relationships. Relationship Marketing.

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Build Customer Relationships

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  1. Relationship Marketing Relationship Value of Customers Customer Profitability Segments Relationship Development Strategies Relationship Challenges Chapter 7 Build Customer Relationships

  2. Relationship Marketing • is a philosophy of doing business, a strategic orientation, that focuses on keeping current customers and improving relationships with them • does not necessarily emphasize acquiring new customers • is usually cheaper (for the firm) • keeping a current customer costs less than attracting a new one • thus, the focus is less on attraction, and more on retention and enhancement of customer relationships

  3. The “Bucket Theory of Marketing”

  4. Customer Goals of Relationship Marketing

  5. Benefits for Customers: Receipt of greater value Confidence benefits: trust confidence in provider reduced anxiety Social benefits: familiarity social support personal relationships Special treatment benefits: special deals price breaks Benefits for Firms: Economic benefits: increased revenues reduced marketing and administrative costs regular revenue stream Customer behavior benefits: strong word-of-mouth endorsements customer voluntary performance social benefits to other customers mentors to other customers Human resource management benefits: easier jobs for employees social benefits for employees employee retention Benefits of Relationship Marketing

  6. Segmenting Customers Based on Commitment and Profitability • BUTTERFLIES • Good fit of company offering and customer needs • High profit potential • Action: • Aim to achieve transactional satisfaction, not attitudinal loyalty • Milk the accounts as long as they are active • Key challenge: cease investment once inflection point is reached • TRUE FRIENDS • Good fit of company offering and customer needs • Highest profit potential • Actions: • Consistent intermittently spaced communication • Achieve attitudinal and behavioural loyalty • Invest to nurture/defend/retain High CLV (Behavioral Loyalty) • STRANGERS • Little fit of company offering and customer needs • Lowest profit potential • Action: • No relationship investment • Profitize every transaction • BARNACLES • Limited fit of company offering and customer needs • Low profit potential • Action: • Measure size and share-of-wallet • If share-of-wallet is low, specific up and cross-selling • If size of wallet is small, strict cost control Low Relationship Commitment (Attitudinal Loyalty) High Low W. Reinhartz & V. Kumar, "The Mismanagement of Customer Loyalty," Harvard Business Review 80 (July 2002), pp. 86-94.

  7. Strategies for Building Relationships • Core Service Provision: • service foundations built upon delivery of excellent service: • satisfaction, perceived service quality, perceived value • Switching Barriers: • customer inertia • switching costs: • set up costs, search costs, learning costs, contractual costs • Relationship Bonds: • financial bonds • social bonds • customization bonds • structural bonds

  8. “The Customer Is NOT Always Right” • Not all customers are good relationship customers: • wrong segment • not profitable in the long term • difficult customers

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